Episode 7.5

Features selections from issue 7.1, which includes an interview with National Book Award Finalist poet Matt Rasmussen. Rasmussen discusses the inception of his Walt Whitman Award-winning collection Black Aperture (LSU Press 2013) exploring the suicide of his brother, and working with poet Jane Hirshfield. This episode concludes with a pair of pieces from issue 7.1: Beth Gilstrap’s story “Juveniles Lack Green,” and Purvi Shah’s poem “In the 21st century, Mira remarks–Krishna’s ways of loving belong in a parallel universe.”

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